Now we
beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Savior Yahshua the Messiah,
and our gathering together to him; to the end that you be not quickly shaken
from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle
as from us, as that the day of Yahweh is just at hand; let no man beguile you in
any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be
revealed, the
son of perdition, he that opposes and exalts himself against all that is called
Elohim or that is worshipped; so that he sits in the temple of Elohim, setting
himself forth as Elohim. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

Part One

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a floodafter the woman,
that he might causeher to be
carried away ofthe flood.Revelation 12:15

Is this speaking of a literal pouring forth of water? The serpent sends forth
something out of his mouth. Could this be a flood of propaganda?

Propaganda can be used very effectively by evil people to accomplish their
purpose. We want to come to a better understanding of this strategy, adroitly
used by Satan. First the definition.

Propaganda Definition

Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an
agenda. Even if the message conveys true information, it may be partisan and
fail to paint a complete and balanced picture. The primary use of the term is in
political contexts, and generally refers to efforts sponsored by governments and
political parties.

The goal of propaganda is to garner either support or disapproval of a certain
position, ratherthan to
simply present the position.
The primary target of propaganda is
people's opinions rather than their knowledge. Therefore, the information
conveyed is often presented in an emotionally loaded way and with
other means of affecting the opinions of people.In English,
the word "propaganda" often carries strong negative (as well as political)
connotations, despite being accepted as a general meaning of "advertising" on
rare occasions. This is not necessarily so in other languages, and usage of the
term may lead to misunderstanding in communications with non-native English
speakers. For example, in Brazil and some Spanish language speaking countries,
particularly in the Southern Cone, the word "propaganda"usually means the most common
manipulation of information—"advertising."

"Bad names have played a tremendously powerful role in the history of the world
and in our own individual development. They have ruined reputations,
stirred men and women to outstanding accomplishments, sent others to prison
cells, and made men mad enough to enter battle
and slaughter their fellowmen.
They have been and are applied to other people, groups, gangs, tribes, colleges,
political parties, neighborhoods, states, sections of the country, nations, and
races." (Institute for Propaganda Analysis, 1938) The name-calling technique links a
person, or idea, to a negative symbol.The propagandist
who uses this technique hopes that the audience will reject the person or the
idea on the basisof the
negative symbol,instead of looking at the available
evidence.

The most
obvious type of name calling involves bad names. For example, consider the
following:

Commie
Fascist
Pig
Yuppie
Bum
Queer
Terrorist

A more subtle form of name-calling involves words or phrases that are selected
because they possess a negative emotional charge. Those who oppose budget cuts
may characterize fiscally conservative politicians as "stingy." Supporters might
prefer to describe them as "thrifty." Both words refer to the same behavior, but
they have very different connotations. Other examples of negatively charged
words include:

social engineering
radical
cowardly
counter-culture

The name-calling technique was first identified by the Institute for Propaganda
Analysis (IPA) in 1938. According to the IPA, we should ask ourselves the
following questions when we spot an example of name-calling.

What does the name mean?
Does the idea in question have a legitimate connection with the real meaning of
the name?
Is an idea that serves my best interests being dismissed through giving it a
name I don't like?
Leaving the name out of consideration, what are the merits of the idea itself?

If you can effectively attach some identifying epithet (true or not) to an
individual, you can work towards generating a negative perception of any
individual other then what they truly are. You can effectively neutralize that
person, and portray them as evil incarnate, while truly they may be righteous
instead.

Propaganda can be used effectively if; the listening audience is lacking
intelligence, inclined to mob psychology, or under the influence of alcohol or
drugs. The human mind can be a fertile receptive field under the right
conditions. This is why propaganda is so effective.

A
hypothetical for instance! Let's say you are having a conversation with someone
who would use propaganda to their advantage. You mention the fact that this
particular person you both know is a fine upstanding person. The propagandist
injects this thought, Oh! They're ok, with the exception of only having one bad
habit, they tell lies! You walk away from that conversation with doubt! Your
mind has just received propaganda. The truth of the matter you find out later,
after you begin to question that statement is; this individual would never lie
no matter what! But the effect has caused you to doubt. This is how it
works! Propaganda is designed to create doubt. Propaganda can be composed of
half truths and half lies, observe!

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh Elohim
had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has Elohim said, You shall not eat of
any tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, Of the fruit of the
trees of the garden we may eat: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the
middle of the garden, Elohim has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall
you touch it, unless you die. And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not
surely die: for Elohim does know that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes
shall be opened, and you shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:1-5

Was this a classic case of propaganda? Did the serpent issue a flood of lies
to the woman? Did Eve die? Yes! Adam and Eve both died! However, not right a
way! Lies, propaganda consisting of half truths and half lies! I rest my case!

Next: 2. Glittering generalities

PROPAGANDA

Part Two

2.
Glittering Generalities

In
the previous installment, the use of appellations was reviewed. Name calling
has proven to be effective in categorizing individuals with stigmatic
consequences. You can relate to this by simply listening to or reading
informational news sources. How they attach appellations to the President, or
his cabinet members. Usually these are demeaning terms, designed to lower the
prestige of the person or office they occupy.

1).
Name Calling -- The name-calling techniques links a person or an idea with a
negative label. The user of this
technique hopes that the audience will reject the labeled person or idea based
on the negative connotation of the name and not on the available evidence.
An example of this technique is the use of the label "Communist" or "Commie" by
people like Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Congressman Richard Nixon.

A more subtle form of name-calling
involves words that are selected because of their emotional context.
Propaganda by opponents of a budget cut might portray conservative congressmen
as "stingy", because of the emotional reaction most hearers would feel upon
hearing that word.

2). Glittering Generality -- The Glittering Generality technique is the flip
side of name calling. This technique
associates a person or an idea with what are called "virtue words." These
words, (democracy, right, religious, good, proper, patriotism, science, etc.)
are chosen because of their positive connotation and/or emotional impact.
The propagandist who uses glittering
generalities hopes that the audience will accept the person or idea based on the
acceptance of the virtue words and not based on the
evidence.

Now,
this is key information! How do you want someone to appear? Do you want them
to appear in bad light? Do you want them to appear in good light? This depends
on using either the "name calling" technique or using the "glittering
generalities" technique! Can you see the difference?

Glittering Generalities Definition:
From Disinfopedia

"Freedom" and "Democracy" are notable examples of glittering generalities:
vague terms with high moral connotations
intended to arouse faith and respect in listeners or readers. The exact
meanings of these glittering terms are impossible to define, hence vague
generalities. "We the people" could mean prudent, wise, fair rule; it could also
mean repression. It all depends on who the 'people' who rule actually are.
Furthermore, one person's idea of freedom could very well be another's idea of
slavery. Glittering generalities sound
sincere but they really mean nothing. As such they are a logical fallacy.
Used by people who sincerely mean well, and also by people that seek to muzzle
freedoms and democratic government, whatever these terms may mean."

We
believe in, fight for, live by virtue words about which we have deep-set ideas.
Such words include civilization, faithfulness, good, proper, right, democracy,
patriotism, motherhood, fatherhood, science, medicine, health, and love.

For our purposes in propaganda analysis, we call these virtue words "Glittering
Generalities" in order to focus attention upon this dangerous characteristic
that they have: They mean different things to different people; they can be used
in different ways.

The Glittering Generality is, in short,
Name Calling in reverse.While Name Calling seeks
to make us form a judgment to reject and condemn without examining the
evidence,the Glittering Generality
device seeksto make us approve
and accept without examining the evidence.
In acquainting ourselves with the Glittering Generality Device, therefore, all
that has been said regarding Name Calling must be kept in mind..." (Institute
for Propaganda Analysis, 1938)

Now
pay attention to the following!

The Institute for Propaganda Analysis suggested a number of questions that
people should ask themselves when confronted with this technique: What does the virtue word really mean?
Does the idea in question have a legitimate connection with the real meaning of
the word:
Is an idea that does not serve my best interests being "sold" to me merely
through its being given a name that I like?
Leaving the virtue word out of consideration, what are the merits of the idea
itself?

If
the word/term is palatable, people will accept it! Hitler was defined as an
"Evil Genius." This says what? Was he evil? Was he a genius? Yes to both
terms! Which word/term really defined Hitler? That depends on your point of
view. If, for instance, you knew what he was really up to, he was evil. On the
other hand, if you agreed with what he was doing, then he was a genius! This
depends entirely on your own point of view. Observe and read the following
passage of scripture:

But
when his brethren were gone up to the feast, then went he also up, not publicly,
but as it were in secret. The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said,
Where is he? And there was much
murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others
said, Not so, but he leads the multitude astray. Yet no man spoke
openly of him for fear of the Jews. John 7:10-13

Was
Yahshua a good man? Did Yahshua deceive the people and lead them astray? Here
is where knowledge is paramount! If you know what the Bible teaches on the
Savior of Man, Yes! Absolutely! Yahshua the Messiah was a good man! Also, if
you know what Yahshua said in John chapter 10, you also will know that it was
not he who led the sheep astray, but FALSE PROPHETS did and would continue to
lead people astray! Was propaganda at work here? Was reverse psychology
employed? What do you think?

Next:
3.
Euphemisms.

PROPAGANDA

Part
Three

3.
Euphemisms.

Webster's defines euphemism as:

Euphemism, noun; a mild or inoffensive word substituted for a more unpleasant or
offensive term; the use of such inoffensive words.

I
want to list a few euphemisms for your consideration. In England we use the
terms for places of evacuation (a euphemism for going to the potty) as follows:
Water closet= WC, lavatory, toilet, loo. Americans say Ladies Room, Gentlemen's
(Men's) Room or where's your head?

But, not all euphemisms offer kind expressions! Some of the euphemisms offered
prior to, during, and after WW2 were inherently evil, if correctly understood.
Observe the following:

In his closing address at Nuremberg, US prosecutor Robert Jackson said:

"Nor is the lie direct the only means of falsehood. They [the Defendants] all speak with a
Nazi double talk with which to deceive the unwary.
In the Nazi dictionary of sardonic euphemisms "final solution" of the Jewish
problem was a phrase which meant extermination "special treatment" of prisoners
of war meant killing; "protective custody" meant concentration camp; "duty
labor" meant slave labor; and an order to "take a firm attitude" or "take
positive measures" meant to act with unrestrained savagery."

Also, this is recorded in the annuals of history.

In Nazi Germany (before the concentration camps became death camps)
“undesirables” were “placed in protective custody” or “resettled”. In Australia
“illegals” are held in “Immigration Reception and Processing Centers” behind
“energized fences”, receiving regular “security checks” and occasional
“extractions”. Their “inappropriate behaviors” are not allowed to “manipulate
public policy”.

Did you notice the doublespeak? The veiled references? The innuendo?

All of these euphemisms were designed to hide the real course of action that was
taking place behind the scenes. These substitutions for TRUTH were made
palatable through euphemisms. Instead of saying death camps, they said
concentration camps. Actually, quite different in meaning altogether.

"Hitler, the master propagandist, knew that propaganda, to be effective,
must be keyed to the desires, hopes,
hatreds, loves, fears, and prejudices of the people;
he knew that most human beings crave a scapegoat to take the blame of
disaster and to bolster their own pride."

I
want you to read the following information and see just how effective propaganda
can be.

The next technique we want to examine is called the "Bandwagon effect.

Because this is warned against in Torah, we will want to avoid this trap.

You shall not follow a multitude to do
evil;
neither shall you speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest
[justice]: Exodus 23:2 ASV

That no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his
devices. 2 Cor. 2:11

BANDWAGON EFFECT:

Definition

Bandwagon effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The bandwagon effect is the observation
that people often do (or believe) things because many other people do (or
believe) the same.
The effect is often pejoratively referred to as herd instinct, particularly as
applied to adolescents. Without examining the merits of the
particular thing, people tend to "follow the crowd".
The bandwagon effect is the reason for the bandwagon fallacy's success.

Literally, a bandwagon is a wagon that carries the band in a parade. Riding on
the bandwagon is popular since one can enjoy the music, conveniently without
walking. The phrase "jumping on the bandwagon" is therefore used in the sense of
"joining an increasingly popular trend".

The bandwagon effect can be observed in voting: some people vote for those
candidates or parties who are likely to succeed (or are proclaimed as such by
the media), thus increasing their chances of being on the 'winner's side' in the
end.

This is how it works!

"The propagandist hires a hall, rents radio stations, fills a great stadium,
marches a million or at least a lot of men in a parade. He employs symbols,
colors, music, movement, all the dramatic arts. He gets us to write letters, to
send telegrams, to contribute to his cause. He appeals to the desire, common to most
of us, to follow the crowd. Because he wants us to follow the crowd in masses,
he directs his appeal to groups held together already by common ties,
ties of nationality, religion, race, sex, vocation. Thus propagandists
campaigning for or against a program will appeal to us as Catholics,
Protestants, or Jews...as farmers or as school teachers; as housewives or as
miners.

With the aid of all the other propaganda devices, all of the artifices of
flattery are used to harness the fears and hatreds, prejudices and biases,
convictions and ideals common to a group. Thus is emotion made to push and pull
us as members of a group onto a Band Wagon." (Institute for Propaganda Analysis,
1938)

Band Wagon -- The Band Wagon technique appeals to mass psychology. The basic appeal of the Band Wagon is
that everyone is doing it and so should you.
The Institute for Propaganda Analysis

Now, let's tie these propaganda tricks together with an example.

1). Name Calling -- The name-calling techniques links a person or an idea with a
negative label. The user of this technique hopes that the audience will reject
the labeled person or idea based on the negative connotation of the name and not
on the available evidence.

2). Glittering Generality -- The Glittering Generality technique is the flip
side of name calling. This technique associates a person or an idea with what
are called "virtue words." These words, (democracy, right, religious, good,
proper, patriotism, science, etc.) are chosen because of their positive
connotation and/or emotional impact. The propagandist who uses glittering
generalities hopes that the audience will accept the person or idea based on the
acceptance of the virtue words and not based on the evidence.

3.
Euphemisms. Webster's defines euphemism as: Euphemism, noun; a mild or
inoffensive word substituted for a more unpleasant or offensive term; the use of
such inoffensive words.

4. The Bandwagon Effect -- The observation that people often do (or believe)
things because many other people do (or believe) the same. The effect is often
pejoratively referred to as herd instinct, particularly as applied to
adolescents. Without examining the merits of the
particular thing, people tend to "follow the crowd".
The bandwagon effect is the reason for the bandwagon fallacy's success.

Now let's see how you can systematically destroy someone through propaganda.

The destructive process can begin with position seekers trying to obtain the
unattainable. In quest of their goal, someone or something stands in their
way. How can they achieve their goal of ascendancy in quick fashion, with the
least resistance? First, they must destroy the character of their primary
objective. This begins with attaching a undesirable name to this individual or
even group of individuals. A stigma so to speak. Labeling a righteous man as a
sinner would be one tactic. Let's apply some bad propaganda words.

Observe:

Corruption: Suggest the individual is corrupt!

Crisis: Create the illusion of a crisis under this leader's direction!

Failure: Try to show that this person is a failure!

Hypocrisy: Portray this individual as a hypocrite! Say and do not type!

Incompetent: Suggest they are incompetent!

Liberal: Paint a conservative leader as being liberal!

Now! We have a few name words. These can be used to stereotype anyone!

Now you are going to need some followers to aid in your agenda. These will come
if you can tell them in glittering (flattering) terms how good they are. Not
like the one you are trying to destroy. The target is corrupted, but, you are
not. The target can't handle crisis, but you can take the pressure. The target
is a failure, but you would always succeed. The target is a hypocrite, but, you
always do what you say!

Now to insert some euphemisms:

The target is unkempt= Meaning they are slobs

They're tired=Meaning they need to be replaced

They sure like to eat=Meaning they are gluttons

I
wouldn't have done it that way=Meaning they don't know what they are doing

Now we have succeeded in creating some intended euphemisms. Now we must get as
many as possible on the "bandwagon". With the use of name calling, flattery,
euphemisms, and getting everyone to see things your way, you're a cinch to be
the next leader if your smear campaign is successful.

One thing you should know! People who will resort to these type of propaganda
tactics, will do anything to achieve their agenda. They will lie! They will
steal! They will make false accusations! They will do anything because they have
no morals or conscience to check them from evil. Why? Because their father is
Satan!

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will
to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stands not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John 8:44